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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: Brkeatr on September 21, 2008, 07:32:24 PM
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OK, every year my family seems to have what I call the "Thanksgiving Debate", which we just had and that's why I am bringing it up. The debate consists of 2 things:
#1. Where are we going to go?
#2. What are we having?
I know a lot of families have Thanksgiving in the same place year after year but in my family it's always up for debate.
Also we have the debate on whether we are going to have Turkey or Ham. I myself always want ham because I can't stand turkey. This year my daughter said she was going to host Thanksgiving and she was having both Turkey and Ham... !B@ !B@ !B@
So how about you guys and gals? Do you have the big debate every year? Where do you go and what do you prefer for the big Thanksgiving feast?
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No debate...home...turkey.
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No debate...home...turkey.
Ditto.
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we always have about 3 places we have to go to ...so for me as long as there is food....i will follow.
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Both ... and home to Mom's
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We dread planning for the holidays around here. My wife's parents are divorced, so instead of having just two families to satisfy with visits, we have three. And of coarse there is ALWAYS a few of them that aren't happy with what days they get, or think they didn't get as much time with us. Two years ago Christmas we said screw it all, and went on a cruise on our own.
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We always rotate year to year what side of the family we go to for both Christmas and Thanksgiving. This year is supposed to be Thanksgiving with my in-laws, but we may actually be hosting and having all the family at our house. This is one of those good news/bad news scenarios. Good news is we wouldn't have to travel. Bad new is that we have all the relatives at our house.
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Home and turkey. No questions. No debate. Except who to invite.
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Thanksgiving always ends up creating a big debate. My wife and I both have large families, and both have families that slack off on the hosting. Last year we hosted both Thanksgiving and Xmas and it was alot of work. We had 27 people for xmas dinner.
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We had 27 people for xmas dinner.
Wow, I could never eat that many! ;)
Seriously, that's a lot of mouths to feed!
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P.S andrew, congrats on over a year sly. You really rock the look!
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P.S andrew, congrats on over a year sly. You really rock the look!
Thanks, bootedbear.
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Well....we've been married for 13 years next week.....and we've hosted Thanksgiving for the last 12 years at our home. No debate. We usually have about 21-22 mouths to feed. Always turkey for Thanksgiving.
My wife and I just spoke over the weekend about NOT having Thanksgiving this year. It's a tremendous amount of work, time, and money to do it. We've actually talked about packing up the camper and the smoker.Hitting the campground for the long weekend, and smoking a turkey.
We'll see............
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We try to involve both families at either Thanksgiving or RamaHanuKwanzMas / Winter Solstice Non-Secular Celebration Season (aka "Christmas" in the House of Schro). Some years it's hard to accomplish that, since our relatives are spread out all over the US.
This Christmas (I can say that, since it applies to me), we're hosting the family, so Team Schro is a free agent this Thanksgiving ... anyone got 4 spots open? O:O
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We always have it here and we invite all the family. It seems that the parents swap years so we get them this year because they were at my brothers place last year.
For food, I kinda talked about it under the pet thread. We only eat what we raise or hunt as far as meat goes. We have raised turkeys before but they are messy and gain too fast. We have lots and lots of extra peafowl and pheasants this year that we didnt sell so we fattened them up on high protien feed and lots of sweet feed. It looks like we will be butchering 2 peafowl and about 4-5 pheasants for thanksgiving. They are dark meat but the peafowl are about turkey size and the sweet feed gives the meat a sweet taste when its plain.
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We try to involve both families at either Thanksgiving or RamaHanuKwanzMas / Winter Solstice Non-Secular Celebration Season (aka "Christmas" in the House of Schro). Some years it's hard to accomplish that, since our relatives are spread out all over the US.
This Christmas (I can say that, since it applies to me), we're hosting the family, so Team Schro is a free agent this Thanksgiving ... anyone got 4 spots open? O:O
The SCHRO family would be more than welcome at the Koz casa if they make it to the East...............
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This year we're going to be in Hawaii. I'm hoping for sushi.
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Can you take me? Sounds like heaven!
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Thanksgiving?! Oh, no, that makes me think of CHRISTMAS and its too $@!!&*^%$ early! :Xo!
(Just jelous because we don't have it over here... ;))
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I can't believe this has come up so early. I'm gonna warn all of you right now, that between November 1 and December 31 I get really cranky.
To many people try to put to many demands on MY and MY FAMILIES time. Between the families, the friends, the parties it just gets out of hand. My mother-in-hell asks us every year what we want to do. I tell her, then she tells us what we're going to do DAMMIT LADY! JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO START WITH!
See, now look my blood pressure is up already. :D
Like Koz, I told my wife I would like to hook up the camper and hit a campground for Thanksgiving. I am on call for the hospital and there is a very nice state park 10 minutes from the there. That's what we did for July 4th and it worked out nicely.
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GAS...you will be here for Thanksgiving and Christmas right? I mean you know you need to be here. You never spend enough time with this side of your friends. Do not give me any excuses because I will not tolerate it. You spend plenty of time with her family and your family..now it is time you start paying attention to everyone else. DONT YOU THINK! Now what are WE GOING to have to for dinner? you bring the turkey, dressing , mashed potatoes, homemade noodles, greenbean casserole, Red Velvet cake for dessert. Please do not bring anything to my house that needs to be re-heated because I got a brand new oven and I do not want to turn it on to reheat a turkey taht you OBVIOUSLY do NOT know how to COOK, your noodles are all clumped together, your dressing ( you can break a window with it) mashed potatoes are runny and greenbean casserole is burnt. Not to mention the Red Velvet cake...you might as well call it a RED CARPET cake because taht is all it is worth...to be walked on. See ya at 1:00 thanksgiving day. Oh I will supply the drinking water...from my Braun water filter. See ya
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GAS...you will be here for Thanksgiving and Christmas right? I mean you know you need to be here. You never spend enough time with this side of your friends. Do not give me any excuses because I will not tolerate it. You spend plenty of time with her family and your family..now it is time you start paying attention to everyone else. DONT YOU THINK! Now what are WE GOING to have to for dinner? you bring the turkey, dressing , mashed potatoes, homemade noodles, greenbean casserole, Red Velvet cake for dessert. Please do not bring anything to my house that needs to be re-heated because I got a brand new oven and I do not want to turn it on to reheat a turkey taht you OBVIOUSLY do NOT know how to COOK, your noodles are all clumped together, your dressing ( you can break a window with it) mashed potatoes are runny and greenbean casserole is burnt. Not to mention the Red Velvet cake...you might as well call it a RED CARPET cake because taht is all it is worth...to be walked on. See ya at 1:00 thanksgiving day. Oh I will supply the drinking water...from my Braun water filter. See ya
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You are so funny!
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Funny....you arent going to think I am funny when you find your ass sitting at the kiddy table.....now do you see me laughing? THINK NOT!
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Well, the boy, the gf and myself will be in Ashland, OR at her sister's home and I thinks we'll be having a couple of Ringneck Pheasants (I'm bringing those) and whatever they hosts plan.
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We have a rather large extended family on both of my parents' sides and we usually do a huge family meal or just have our own intimate family gathering. This year, due to Mom's health and very restricted diet, we're doing a rather simple meal at my parents house and since both of my brothers are married now, we're not sure if they'll be there or not, so it'll likely be just me and my parents, and honestly, after the chaotic week of work I'll have that week (I work at Kroger) I'm rather looking forward to a more quiet, toned down holiday. Oh, and I'm doing all the cooking so Dad says he's gonna lose some weight now so he can enjoy the fruits of my labor (not that he didn't eat like a horse all these years when mom cooked - she's an awesome cook).